From Pamplona to Malaga

The airport authorities have already confirmed to Real Madrid, after the meeting held at 2:00 p.m., that the team will not be able to return to the capital throughout this day on Sunday. In this way, the expedition has decided to travel directly to Malaga, where next Thursday he must play the semifinals of the Super Cup against Athletic. He will do it tomorrow morning before noon. The team will stay at the Miramar hotel. It is not confirmed if he will already train in Malaga on Monday afternoon or wait for Tuesday morning.

Real Madrid has tried until the last moment to manage the flight back to Madrid this Sunday, but it has been impossible. With the air chaos due to the snowfall, the Government and the competent authorities have decided to give priority to all operations for the aircraft that were already in the Madrid airport itself. “There will be NO ARRIVALS for the moment, until the programming at origin is reorganized,” AENA announced in a tweet. Madrid took off from Barajas with the airport closed. Or at least with the closure of the facility announced for more than an hour on social networks by the official AENA accounts, and in the middle of a heavy snowfall. When asked about it, Minister Ábalos said: “He left at that moment of transition between the definitive suspension of flights. It was the pilot's decision, who understood that the security conditions were in place to proceed to take off. “

Staying in Pamplona one more night is a drawback for Madrid, who will add three nights sleeping at the Alma Muga Beloso. Sources from the club itself report that the players, by the COVID protocol, They cannot leave the compound where they spend the night. On Sunday they could not do the usual recovery work, only activation exercises. Now they have had to radically change the plan and return directly to Malaga.